Early Jersey Wakefield

Flat Head Variety

Solid, tightly folded head is up to 15" long by 7" wide and weigh 3-4 lbs. First grown in the U.S. by Francis Brill of Jersey City, New Jersey in 1840.

Nero Di Toscano

Non-Heading Type

This very tender and juicy variety is called palm cabbage because the plant looks just like a little palm tree. It is also known as dinosaur, Lacinato or Tuscan kale. A hardy, non-heading variety that produces juicy, very tender and delicious dark green leaves. Harvest young for best flavor. 

Snowball

Large Head Variety

Self-wrapping leaves protect the delicious 6-8" white heads from sunlight, so this variety self-blanches.

Georgia Southern

Georgia Type

Non-heading plants grow 2-3 feet tall with large cabbage-like blue-green leaves that are tender, mild, and juicy. Historic collard first released around 1880. Slow to bolt and tolerant of heat and cold. 

Flash F1

Hybrid Type

Very slow to bolt, Flash offers repeated harvests of dark green, smooth leaves and is very high yielding.

Black Beauty

American Variety

An heirloom variety, it bears classically shaped, glossy, purple-black fruits that are delicious grilled, baked, and in stir-fries. Plants produce 4 to 6 large fruit, or more if kept harvested and well watered.

White Beauty

American Variety

Three-foot plants with 6-inch-long fruits that are 2-3 inches in diameter with some variability in fruit shape. Good flavor. Hardy and productive for the South and other hot, humid areas. 

Nero Di Toscana

This very tender and juicy variety is called palm kale because the plant looks just like a little palm tree. It is also known as dinosaur, Lacinato or Tuscan kale. A hardy, non-heading variety that produces juicy, very tender and delicious dark green leaves. Harvest young for best flavor.

Dwarf Blue Curled

Heavily crinkled leaves make fine kale chips and hold up well after harvest. 12-14" high plants with a wide spread of plumage. Slow to bolt, cold hardy & overwinters well.

Grows best in well-drained soil with compost and available nutrients like nitrogen. Add compost to ensure that the seedlings will have food immediately available to them once transplanted. Avoid planting where any member of the cabbage family grew the year before.

California Wonder

Sweet

Vigorous, disease resistant, heavy bearing plant with thick-walled 4 inches tall and wide fruit, with a crisp, mild flavor and terrific sweetness. They mature from green to red on the plant, and are ideal for stuffing, slicing into rings for dips and salad toppings, and chopping into crisp bite-sized nibbles.  

Ancho Gigantea Poblano

Medium Hot

Distinctively rich Mexican poblano sets the standard for sauces and stuffing; it is also excellent used fresh for chile rellenos.

Early Jalapeño

Hot

Cone-shaped, thick-walled fruit, 3 to 4 inches long and about 1½ inches wide, borne in great numbers on very vigorous plants. They are ready to pick when dark green, delivering a wallop of pure heat.

Sweet Banana

Sweet

Prolific Italian variety prized for its gigantic sweet red fruits. Delicious 12" long 3” across (at shoulders) peppers are ideal for stir-fry, grilling and enjoying raw in salads. An early variety known for its high yields.

Named for its banana-like shape, this variety bears sweet, mild banana peppers that mature from yellow, to orange, and then to crimson red. Plants fruit prolifically, easily producing up to 25 to 30 pods per plant. Banana peppers are great for frying and pickling.

Sunpeach

Small Fruit

Sunpeach (sister variety to Sun Gold, is less tangy & acidic as its famous orange relative, but is very sweet with excellent flavor.) Deep pink, shiny, 15-20 gm., fruit are borne on long trusses.

Homestead 24

Large Fruit

Red 8 oz slightly flattened globes. Developed for hot humid coastal areas, especially Florida, with good disease resistance. Reliably sets fruit at high temperatures.

Jasper

Small Fruit

Round, 2-3" fruit with pleasantly chewy texture and sweet, rich flavor. Plants are extra vigorous and tall, staying healthy for a long picking period. Intermediate resistance to early blight, Septoria Leaf Spot, and late blight. Crack and rot resistant.  AAS winner. 

Roma VF

Medium Fruit

Plum to round shape, thick walled, red 4-6 oz medium-sized fruit popular (paste type) for canning, sauce, juice or drying. Heavy producer. 

Tropic VFN

Large Fruit

Developed by the University of Florida, this exceptionally disease-resistant variety produces sweet-flavored fruit averaging 8-9 oz that is thick-walled and tends to sit high on the vine under a protective cover of foliage. Recommended highly for hot, humid, disease-prone areas, especially where blight is a problem.